Last Modified: Thursday, January 10, 2013 at 10:50 a.m.

A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the J.C. Green & Sons Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Bynum Orr. Burial will follow in Holly Hill Memorial Park.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home and other times at the home of her daughter, Pat, 7352 Oak Bucket Road.

She was born Aug. 3, 1924, in Purcell, Okla., to Willie Wiley Harper and Lottie Roark Harper and moved to Lexington where she met Troy Aaron York, whom she married Dec. 27, 1941.

Willie was a member of Carolina Memorial Baptist Church and the Ladies No. 1 Sunday School Class. When she could no longer attend, she received a tape every week of the services and always loved to listen to gospel music. Willie retired from Ragan Knitting. She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers, Demus, Carl, Hulin, Harold and Harvey Harper; three sisters, Rozelle Lanier, Francis Byrd and Daisy Lee Brown; her precious husband; and loving daughter Sandra York Everhart.

Her memory will lovingly last on through her surviving sons and daughters, Troy Aaron "Sonny" York Jr. of Kernersville, Darrell Lynn York and wife Sylvia, Connie Sue Wilfong and husband Rick and Patricia "Pat" Meredith and husband Ron, all of Thomasville. She was a loving grandmother of 11 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren and has many special nieces and nephews.

<p>THOMASVILLE | Willie Mae Harper York, 88, a resident of East Holly Hill Road, has entered her heavenly home Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, at the Henry Etta & Bruce Hinkle Hospice House in Lexington. </p><p>A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at the J.C. Green & Sons Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Bynum Orr. Burial will follow in Holly Hill Memorial Park.</p><p>Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home and other times at the home of her daughter, Pat, 7352 Oak Bucket Road. </p><p>She was born Aug. 3, 1924, in Purcell, Okla., to Willie Wiley Harper and Lottie Roark Harper and moved to Lexington where she met Troy Aaron York, whom she married Dec. 27, 1941.</p><p>Willie was a member of Carolina Memorial Baptist Church and the Ladies No. 1 Sunday School Class. When she could no longer attend, she received a tape every week of the services and always loved to listen to gospel music. Willie retired from Ragan Knitting. She was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers, Demus, Carl, Hulin, Harold and Harvey Harper; three sisters, Rozelle Lanier, Francis Byrd and Daisy Lee Brown; her precious husband; and loving daughter Sandra York Everhart.</p><p>Her memory will lovingly last on through her surviving sons and daughters, Troy Aaron "Sonny" York Jr. of Kernersville, Darrell Lynn York and wife Sylvia, Connie Sue Wilfong and husband Rick and Patricia "Pat" Meredith and husband Ron, all of Thomasville. She was a loving grandmother of 11 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren and has many special nieces and nephews.</p><p>Memorials may be directed to Hospice of Davidson County, 200 Hospice Way, Lexington, NC 27292 or to Alzheimer's Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington, DC 20090-6011. </p><p>The family would like to thank everyone who visited or sent cards, prayers and kind thoughts to Willie Mae while at Carolina House in Lexington. </p><p>Online condolences may be sent to the York family at www.jcgreenandsons.com.</p>